"One of the things I like about that picture is that it reflects so well the experience that many have right after having a baby" explains artist Jessica Todd Harper of her self-portrait with her son.⁣ ⁣⁣ She continues:⁣ "This picture, on the one hand, is a classic Madonna and Child iconography... Something miraculous has occurred... but at the same time it's occurring in the bathroom which is not a sacred space, a holy space. It's banal. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ There's clutter on the right side, there's that towel on the left. So motherhood is all those things. It is miraculous and transcendent and at the same time it is just filled with the demands of daily life." See this portrait and Harper's other works in the "Kinship" exhibition on the first floor of the National Portrait Gallery. 📸: "Self-portrait with Marshall" by Jessica Todd Harper, 2008. Courtesy of the artist. © Jessica Todd Harper